Empires of the Undergrowth is an ant colony management game, in a fast-paced real-time strategy style. The player excavates their nest underground, constructing tunnels and chambers to store food and raise brood. On the surface, the ants claim territory, gather resources, overwhelm fearsome arachnids and clash with other colonies. Nest design, army size, composition and attack timing are key to securing victory.
- Carve out and construct your underground nest to suit your strategy
- Engage in fast-paced colony versus colony combat above ground
- Play as different ant species and explore their unique traits and weaknesses
- Encounter and overpower dangerous beetles, arachnids and other awesome arthropods
- Grow your pet formicarium over time by completing missions
If you're not participating in the optional beta yet and would like to, see the original post for details on how to participate .
Thanks for the feedback on the optional beta! Our Discord server has been a particularly active hive of activity over the last several hours since it was released, and we thoroughly encourage you to join - the devs are currently very active there, responding to bug reports and collating feedback. Theyre friendly devs, too, as long as John has had his 7 hours of sleep!
Weve addressed some of the more pressing issues that have cropped up in this patch (V0.310044) - this is the first of what we anticipate to be several patches during the testing period. The most urgent fix here is a translation problem that was causing large issues with freeplay setup in non-English languages.
Again, the reports are very much appreciated. These optional betas are vital to catching issues that need a much bigger sample size than we can manage with internal quality control and the small focus group - were so glad youre choosing to be a part of it!
Fixes
- Fixed translation issue affecting freeplay setup in several ways
- Large tiger beetle defeat line restored in 2.1
- Fixed an issue preventing creatures from fighting among [strike]us[/strike] themselves
- Woodlice and woodworm should no longer appear in attack waves (terrifying though they were)
- Fixed overlapping issue on level select screen
- Disable Colony Attacks button should now work as intended
- Reordered some landmark spawning on game begin / load
- Fixes for some loading & saving crashes
Changes
- Remastered beach underground applied to the first formicarium
- 2.2s escaping queens can no longer be picked up by tiger beetle larvae
Minimum Setup
- OS: Any reasonable new Linux distro (Ubuntu 16.04)
- Processor: Intel Core i3-4340 / AMD FX-6300Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: nVidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB / AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB
- Storage: 2 GB available space
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